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Hunter Valley · Mining & the mines
557 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 18 of 28
VANCOUVER: A record-breaking 440 yards swim by Sydney youngster, Lorraine Crapp, already a gold medallist after Monday’s sprint triumph, and heat-winning bursts by track sprinters Hec Hogan, Marjorie Jackson and Winsome Cripps were among the highlights of the Empire Games third day yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →CESSNOCK: A dispute which involves members of the FEDFA is responsible for Stanford Main No. 2 colliery…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →VANCOUVER: Victory for one of Australia’s teenage swimming stars— 15-years-old Gary Chapman—and the defeat of another—14-years-old Jan Grier—highlighted yesterday’s round of swimming titles at the Empire Games. Chapman’s victory in the men’s 440 yards freestyle championship gave…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →CESSNOCK: After holding a pit-top meeting this morning. Elrington miners approached the manager to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A plaque provided by Muswellbrook Golf Club, commemorating the assistance given the club by the Joint…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Minister for Mines, Mr. Gollan, has forecast a grim future for the N.S.W. coal industry…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →About two million tons of coal had been lost because a creep blocked all access roads to a pit fire,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →In a review of the position in the coalmining industry, the Senior Vice-president of the Northern Federation Mr. Harry Cockerill) said to-day that, when in the latter part of 1952 the workers in the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The world's two fastest milers, Australia's John Landy and England's Roger Bannister, let their rivals lead the way to the finish in the heats of the Empire Games' mile yesterday, both being content…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →CESSNOCK: A demarcation dispute over the employment of a man in a lamp cabin is responsible…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →VANCOUVER: The 1954 Empire Games which ended in Vancouver on Saturday showed swimming provided Australia’s best hope, for gold medals at the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →CESSNOCK: Abermain No. 2 was idle to-day because of a dispute among the top hands concerning promotion…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Experiments to be carried out in the Maitland district may have, the way for a new branch, of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →LITHGOW: When a blasting operation spilt a coal face at the state mine to-day, a man was burled beneath the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Victorian State Electricity Commission is to increase its orders for N.S.W. black coal by 4000 tons a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The alarming degree of decline in the consumption of coal could be accepted as being largely due to scientific developments which had resulted in other fuels taking the place of coal as the main source of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Kevin Brennan, 22, of Longstreet, Cessnock, a brattice hand, employed at Aberdare Central colliery, had his…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The triennial meeting of the Miners' Convention will assemble next Monday in Sydney…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →CESSNOCK: Hebburn No. 2 is the only idle mine on the South Maitland field today, The dispute concerns the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY: Claims for additional industrial benefits for miners, including increased wages, a shorter working week end extra tick end holiday grants, have all been rejected by the Coal Industry Tribunal (Mr…
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